Speech and Drama Ages 6-12
Speech and Drama Ages 6-12
The Speech and Drama program at Robins Academy offers children a vibrant space to step out of their comfort zones, imagine, and create. Through engaging lessons filled with movement, speaking, poetry, and improvisation, students explore the full potential of their voices and bodies in performance.
They learn how to speak with clarity and conviction, developing essential techniques such as voice projection, modulation, and the use of expressive characterisation. Along the way, they improve in stage presence and confidence by taking on diverse roles, building both their acting skills and their ability to engage with an audience.
A key feature of the program is the opportunity to perform for a live audience, whether through skits, plays, or a combination of acting and song. These performances are always heartfelt highlights for families, who delight in seeing their children’s growth, and watching them thrive.
Designed to enrich the social, verbal, and critical thinking skills of children in their key developmental years, our Speech and Drama program helps young learners build self-assurance, develop friendships, and overcome shyness. These are skills that will serve them well beyond the classroom. Every session encourages students to become confident communicators, while enjoying themselves in a supportive environment.
Public Speaking
Both Junior and Senior programs at Robins Academy place an emphasis on Public speaking development. Through improvisation, poetry, storytelling, monologues, & speeches, students will develop their confidence, engagement and ability to speak in front of a crowd- skills that will help them throughout their life. Public Speaking & Speech and Drama exams are also available to any student who wishes to take them.
Public Speaking
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Lanith P
It has been amazing to see Kevin progress in the drama class, building up his confidence each day to do all his funny acts on stage. He absolutely loves going for drama class, even though he is the only boy in the class. Kevin did an amazing job with his monologue performance which was his very first performance on stage and he was quite excited that he was able make the audience laugh with his acting. I am confident that he will continue to shine with Natalie’s help and use drama class as an opportunity to express himself.
Anu
My daughter Imandee is blessed to have such an amazing teacher like Natalie to move forward with her journey in choir and drama. I appreciate her hard work and the mesmerizing support towards Imandee and all the other students. Thank you!
Indula
I have seen Diyon’s improvements in speech pattern after attending his drama lessons. His pronunciation is much better than before. He is so confident now when talking in public. I am so proud of him when I see him on the stage compared with other children his age. We are so thankful to Robins Academy for making our child confident.
Indika
My little one was very shy, and she didn’t want to talk in front of people. I remember when she started drama class and was asked to talk about her week, she was wriggling and not speaking confidently. But now, she knows how to talk in front of people and get the attention of an audience. She loves drama class!
Sachini
Dear Natalie, Our heartfelt gratitude for the amazing influence you have given to the children to blossom into confident and talented little artists. We witnessed a sense of discipline, teamwork, and self-confidence that will undoubtedly serve the children well in life. Though it has been a relatively short time since our daughter Nessya enrolled in the junior drama, her journey in your class has already been a great exploration of her strengths and talents. Thank you for creating such a nurturing and inspiring environment for our children. Keep doing the great inspiring work. Sending you our best wishes as you embark on your exciting journey!
Jayani
Anu & Abi are two little shy guys, who only performed their itsy bitsy pieces for the family. I am so happy to see how they have transformed to be two characters in a stage drama. I see remarkable development in their confidence & performance within this short period of about 6 months. This is their first ever class and they didn’t want to go for a drama class at the beginning, but now they are fully geared by Saturday for the class. I am much grateful to Natalie for making the class interesting for children and also for organizing a performance evening where children get a stage to build their abilities & confidence.
Uvini
Hayley has been attending Natalie’ s speech and drama class since 2021. She loves every second of it. Natalie has an excellent way with the children. She is so drawn to her. Her style of teaching is unique. My daughter Hayley come skips from her class beaming and full of smiles. I noticed as a parent how her confidence and vocabulary improved so much and that her memory for singing is wonderful. My daughter who is almost 10 years now is blooming with confidence and again her imagination and memory skills are outstanding.
Natalie’s ability to enhance a child’s social skills is remarkable. This I have seen at first hand in my child. Every parent knows how important social skills are for a child to blossom. Natalie’s speech and drama school is a place where your child will develop at their own pace, to their full potential, while having a lot of fun.
Dee
Minette
Iresha
Hemendra
The first part of the evening was lined up with a performance by the academy’s choir BLISS, along with a few skits and dances which added colourful variety to the event. Mr Cat’s party and Mr. Know it All’s wonder class (which was a skit created by Natalie herself) provided an opportunity for the junior drama group to showcase their talents, taking their first steps into the drama world. The Robins Family Special, in which Natalie played the mum’s role, was very touching and heart warming. Her lamenting rendition expressing a mother’s feelings when all her children leave home after growing up made most of the mothers in the audience teary-eyed.
The choir was extremely outstanding with beautiful singing. They need to be complimented for singing in four different languages, namely English, Sinhala, Hindi and Swahili. Their blending of high and low notes in harmony was mesmerising. The guest artists who performed in accordance with the respective songs were graceful. The dance items were given by the Adelaide Academy of Irish Dancing, Sihalakala Dance Academy and African Community Dance Group were enchanting and glamorous.
The second part of the programme presented the main play, CINDERFELLA. This was an interesting twist on the classic timeless fairy tale Cinderella. Nataliehad included many deviations from the traditional story to make it more amusing and hilarious. Some of the twists were as follows- The prince recognised Cinderella by a handkerchief he lent her during the ball, instead of the glass slipper. Also, the glass slipper actually fitted the Fairy Godmother, and the King married her to save the kingdom from disgrace.
I would like to mention a few scenes that brought great joy to the audience. The fairy helpers, one carrying a huge book on her back and the other writing down the Fairy Rules in it were fantastic additions. Another was the scene showing different extravagant and hilarious dresses on the back screen, with lighting effects for Cinderella to choose the best one to wear to the ball. As each of them appeared, the others on stage made sighs and exclamations. The fairies assumption that Cinderella was dead, was another hilarious moment. All this was very natural and lively and there were many more novel elements which was enriching, engaging and laughter evoking for both the young and the old alike.
The songs and dance in CINDERFELLA was very well performed by the students and it was thrilling to watch such talent unfold before our eyes. The King, Cinderella, the Fairy Godmother, the step family, fairies trainees and guards did their roles especially well. The lighting effects and costumes too were well chosen, very rich and colourful.
Thus, Natalie has shown her expertise in script writing, story-telling and capability in training the students to bring out their artistic talents. As a result, the children all performed their best. A word of praise should go out to the two comperes.
All in all, Robins Academy’s Performing Arts show was an outstanding and memorable event that brought joy to the audience, and great pride especially to the parents and grandparents of all who took part. As Sri Lankans we need to be thankful to Natalie for opening up a centre of this nature in Adelaide Australia, for our young children to develop their artistic talents, self-confidence and social skills. I congratulate her and all her students for a job well done and wish them the very best in future endeavours!
Latha Pattiaratchi Ranathunga
Retired Teacher
